AUCKLAND TAXI FARES.
TELEPHONE BOOKING FEE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 24. Auckland tnxi firms from midnight to-night will ask a telephone booking fee of sixpence in addition to the ordinary fare. The charge will not be made if the taxi is hailed in the street or taken from the stand. The taxi-men state that they recently asked the City Council for an increase in the flag-fall charge from Is to Is Gd, hut the request was refused. “A booking fee of sixpence is something new and is in contravention of the by-law’ which states that the taxi fare will be Is for flag-fall and sixpence additional per mile,” said Mr AA’. T. Anderton, chairman of the legal and by-laws committee of the City Council, when interviewed to-day. Mr Anderton denied that the companies had been refused an amendment in the fares to meet changed conditions. Representations were made to ‘the City Council after it had appointed a sub-committee to investigate the position. The subcommittee had discussed the matter with Hon. R. Semple, and the question was still under review.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 2
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180AUCKLAND TAXI FARES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 2
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